is a 2017 Japanese two-part drama film based on arthouse screenwriter

Shūji Terayama was a Japanese avant-garde poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground (''Angura'') theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema. ...

's one and only full length novel, ''Aa Koya'', published in 1966. Directed by Yoshiyuki Kishi, it stars

Masaki Suda , known professionally as , is a Japanese actor and singer. He won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. His debut song is "Mita Koto mo Nai Keshiki". Personal life Suda is a close junior to S ...

and

Yang Ik-june Yang Ik-june (born October 19, 1975) is a South Korean actor and film director. He is best known for the 2009 film '' Breathless'', which he wrote, directed, edited, and starred in. Career Born in Seoul in 1975, Yang graduated from the Departme ...

. It made its world premiere in A Window on Asian Cinema at the

22nd Busan International Film Festival The 22nd Busan International Film Festival will be held from October 12 to October 21, 2017 at the Busan Cinema Center and hosted by Jang Dong-gun and Im Yoon-ah. A total of 300 films from 75 countries will be screened at the festival, including ...

in 2017.

Plot

Two "losers" meet by chance when they decide to join a rundown boxing gym by half-blind trainer Horiguchi (

Yūsuke Santamaria , better known by his stage name , is a Japanese actor and singer. Biography Santamaria appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 film '' Doppelganger''. He starred in Katsuyuki Motohiro is a Japanese film director. Filmography *''Odoru Daisosase ...

). Ex-convict Shinji (

), whose father's suicide death impacts his mental health and outward aggressiveness, has just been released from a juvenile detention centre and is out to take revenge on Yuji Yamamoto ( Yūki Yamada) who betrayed him and has since become a boxer. Kenji (

), a mild-mannered half-Korean-half-Japanese barber, is extremely shy and stutters due to a traumatic past with his abusive father. They form an unlikely friendship as they journey their way to become professional boxers and a way back into an unforgiving society.

Cast

as Shinji Sawamura *

as Kenji *

as Horiguchi * Yūki Yamada as Yuji Yamamoto * Akari Kinoshita as Yoshiko Sone * Anna Konno as Keiko Nishiguchi * Kou Maehara as Keizo Kawasaki *

Tae Kimura is a Japanese actress. She won the Best Actress award at the 32nd Japan Academy Prize for ''All Around Us''. Biography Kimura starred in Ryosuke Hashiguchi's ''All Around Us''. Her performance in the film was described by Jason Gray as "one of ...

as Kyoko Kimizuka

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Wilderness Part 1
' at JFDB *
Wilderness Part 2
' at JFDB * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilderness 2017 films 2010s sports films 2010s Japanese-language films Japanese boxing films 2010s Japanese films